實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Death to Email 電子郵件的消亡(2)

Todd: I know. Actually I see you guys and it's amazing. I see my students how fast they can use their phone, and it's phenomenal to me. It's like blurry, it's so fast.

托德：我知道。我看到過你們用手機(jī)打字，非常不可思議。我看到過我的學(xué)生用手機(jī)的速度，那對我來說太驚人了。我看著很模糊，太快了。

Jen: I think if you start using your phone more and not your PC then you would be fast at it too, because even if I were to check my mails I don't do it from my PC, I actually do reply to all my mails from my phone itself.珍：我想如果你開始多用手機(jī)而不是用電腦的話，你也可以那么快，因為即使我現(xiàn)在要查看電郵，我也不是在電腦上操作，我會用手機(jī)回復(fù)所有電郵。Todd: Wow. Actually no, I think it's not true because I've tried. I think it's because I'm older. My phone gets stiff. I mean my phone ... My thumb gets stiff like arthritis or something, like it literally stops moving. That's why I'm amazed.

托德：哇哦。實際上，我認(rèn)為我辦不到，因為我已經(jīng)試過了。我想這是因為我年紀(jì)大了。我的手機(jī)僵掉了。我的意思是說我的手機(jī)……我的拇指僵化，類似關(guān)節(jié)炎之類的疾病，也就是說它靜止不動了。所以我才會感到吃驚。

Jen: Maybe it's just in your head.

珍：也許是你的思想僵化。

Todd: I physically can't do it. No, no, I really like, and when I type I could type really fast, touch type, but I cannot move my thumb that fast. The more, the longer I try I get thumb fatigue, like my thumb just stops, the joint won't work anymore.托德：是身體上做不到。不是，我在電腦上打字時，速度可以非?？欤墒窃谟|摸屏上打字，我的拇指動不了那么快。打的字越多、時間越長，我的拇指越疲勞，所以拇指就不動了，關(guān)節(jié)不再工作了。

Jen: For me it's very difficult for me to type really fast. I would rather use my thumb and text.

珍：對我來說，我在電腦上的打字速度達(dá)不到那么快。我更愿意用拇指編輯短信。

Todd: No, that's cool. Now these days I don't know if you've realized but you can do voice typing. Have you tried that? Google Docs for example, you don't even have to type anymore. You can just talk in a microphone and with no special software and Google Docs will type what you say.

托德：嗯，那很酷。我不知道你有沒有注意到，最近可以語音輸入了。你試過嗎?比如谷歌文件，甚至不用再打字了。你可以用麥克風(fēng)進(jìn)行語音輸入，不用特殊軟件的輔助，谷歌文件就可以識別出你說的話。

Jen: But then again you have to be very clear because it always makes a lot of mistakes.

珍：可是要明確的是，這種方法的錯誤很多。

Todd: Yeah, but you know what's amazing about it, is I had, I was doing it with my students and then I was going to have my student do it and the voice recorder wouldn't take their voice, it would only take my voice.

托德：對，不過你知道那了不起的地方在于，我和學(xué)生一起用語音輸入，我讓學(xué)生進(jìn)行語音輸入，可是語音記錄器不接受學(xué)生的聲音，只接受并識別我的聲音。

Jen: I think it's because the ...

珍：我想那是因為……

Todd: The user account name?

托德：用戶名?

Jen: Yeah, the user account name can only recognize your voice because that's been saved first.

珍：對，用戶名只能識別你的聲音，因為那個先保存了。

Todd: Right, so it saves the first voice, then another one won't work.

托德：好吧，它會保存第一個人的聲音，而其他人的聲音就不能識別了。

Jen: Yeah, I guess.

珍：我想是這樣的。

Todd: So that brings up the question, technology gets better and better and better. Do you think typing will be obsolete, will be gone in five, 10 years?

托德：這就引出了一個問題，技術(shù)越來越先進(jìn)。你認(rèn)為打字會在未來5到10年被淘汰嗎?

Jen: I cannot really say but maybe no, not in 10 years. Maybe 20 to 30 years, yes, but not in 10 years, because I think still people are more comfortable writing their books and stuff like reports, just typing. Everybody doesn't like to talk a lot

.珍：我不能確定，不過也許10年后還不會被淘汰。可能在二三十年后會被淘汰，但10年后不會，因為我認(rèn)為人們依然認(rèn)為在寫書或報告時打字更舒服。所有人都不喜歡說太多話。

Todd: True. Yeah, I think there's a different mental process when you type and it's just when you just speak it goes away.

托德：沒錯。我認(rèn)為打字和說話時的思維過程是不同的。

Jen: Yeah.

珍：對。